The Increasing
Point of Suicide in Japan Students
The
Tirto Post, South Jakarta | Headlines | Friday, November 9, 2018, 08.32 AM
Two hundred fifty students from
elementary till senior high school in Japan chose to make away with themselves
in the 2016-2017 century. The data was taken from the report of Japan Education
Agency on Tuesday, November 6, 2018.
The students who made away
themselves were sprinkled from elementary school (6), junior high school (84),
and senior high school (160). The reason why they did it was reasonable for
them. Most of them (140 cases) were undetected. Then others were worried about
their future after graduated from school (33 cases), family problems (31
cases), and bullying case (10 cases). And others were chosen the reason more
than one cases that was mentioned above.
Vicke Skorjie as the director of
crisis hotline TELL __ a counseling service in Tokyo said, “The
suicide in students circle actually is not new case. However, the physical distraction
and depression which is happened to the student before they decided to do
suicide still becomes the thing that we can talk fairly. As a consequence, the
students and teenagers are pressured to get a help from us.”
Most of students were much pressured
from their future. They were so fear with their future after graduated from
school. Many pressures came to them; from their parents, who demanded them to
be a successful person; from their country which demanded to be “someone” in
their country; and how exactly big smart rivals’ students lived in Japan that
had to be defeated to get a favorite school. And the most serious reason why
the Japan’ students did a suicide was how long the lesson time given.
For the weak students who had a
physical distraction or low material, they were the most students who did a
suicide. They felt nothing for their life and chose to end their life instead
lived without feel alive. Many ways to end their life, such as rived their
chest and abdomen using a Samurai sword, or injured their artery using knife
and others ways.
A suicide was not only happened in
students circle. It also happened in maturity circle; old people; and workers. Japan
was fighting suicide case of their residents. Although it had been a national
issue, a suicide was a taboo issue to talk, even since the end of 1990. This
condition increased suicide potential for people who had heavy depression and
other physical distraction.
The note of Medical Japan Agency
mentioned that number of suicide case because of work problem reached for 2,159
cases. And the number increased per years. In Christmas Day on 2015, Matsuri
Takahashi, a 24 age woman who worked in a Dentsu Advertisement Company chose to
end her life. According to police’ investigation, Matsuri was too often
overtime worked. Since October 9, 2015 the Matsuri’ overtime work reached for
105 hours per month. An abnormal work time was strongly estimated why Matsuri
pressured and finally did a suicide.
Japan
is not a country who sits in higher point of suicide. According to World Health
Organization (WHO) 2017 data, South of Korea was Asian country with higher
point of suicide with the average 26.9 death per 100.000 people on 2016, and
compared with Japan with 18.5 point, and 3.2 for Philippine. Meanwhile, for
world rank, first rank sat by Lithuania with 31.9 per 100.000 people, Russia
with 31 point, Guyana with 29.2 point, South of Korea with 26.9 point, and
Belarussia with 26.2 point.
In
this year, Japan has planned to push down the point of suicide for 10 percent
in the decade century. Japan has taken a way with decreasing the number of
extreme work time for their worker which has had a big role to increase a point
of suicide in Japan. (Source: https://tirto.id/tren-bunuh-diri-di-kalangan-anak-dan-remaja-jepang-meningkat-c9o1), edited and translated by Fajar Ariyanti.
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